A bill moving through the Minnesota Legislature could affect how dems scoff at paid family leave proposal’s impact on small businesses is handled in White Bear Lake.
Senate DFLers rejected a GOP paid leave alternative that passed with bipartisan support in 2022.
To what degree the state should provide those benefits is where the differences between caucuses were stark and along party lines, as senators debated the highly controversial HF2 for more than six hours before the DFL’s one-vote majority held together to pass the bill.
Tim Walz has promised to sign — would establish a state-run insurance program that would tax both employees and employers to fund a paid family and medical leave program that provides workers up to 12 weeks of paid family leave and 12 weeks of medical leave per year.
The program would be funded by an increase on payroll taxes and go into effect by July 1, 2025.
It would also create a new state agency that would oversee the program, with administrative costs estimated to be about $40 million annually.
Replacement wages would average about 66 percent of an employee’s income.
Those benefits would be funded by a 0.7 percent payroll tax.
As the measure advances, residents of White Bear Lake can follow amendments and contact Heather Gustafson regarding the final language.
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